Zhao Xiong entered the door and chatted with Li Bad casually, and made an appointment with Li Bad to set up a banquet in the Mingyue Tower in the city to entertain Li Bad in the evening, and then the banquet left in a hurry.

Li Bad rubbed his sour legs and stomach, looked at the fruit bowl that was missing more than half as soon as he changed it, and helplessly looked at the plums that were stuffed with a mouthful full and chewing hard, shook his head, and said, "Don't eat, let's go out for a walk." ”

Li Zi chewed for a long time before he chewed and swallowed the big mouthful in his mouth, shook his head and said: "Yesterday, I made an appointment with the Taoist friends of the Demon Temple, and today I want to go to the temple to discuss the Tao, and I can't go out with the world." ”

Li Bad said in confusion: "No, have you ever learned the Tao, how can you tell others?"

Li Zi was also stunned for an instant, frowning, racking his brains and thinking, what am I going to say?

Li Bad looked at Li Zi's appearance, shook his head, and muttered, "It's hopeless." "I made up my mind that I couldn't go out with this fool, and got up and walked back into the house.

Only Li Zi was left thinking hard about whether he should go to the Demon Temple.

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Li Bad, who dragged the Murong Lin brothers and sisters out, walked on both sides of the street, which was spacious enough to accommodate three carriages running side by side, except for merchants, there were no half small stalls and vendors.

In order to give full play to the greatest advantage of extending in all directions, except for the west side of the market, there can be no stall on the rest of the roads, which is also different from other cities in Suizhou City, the streets are not as clean as words, except for pedestrians, only a few teams of patrolling the city can be seen.

The only exception is the three or two places at the door of the shop, slightly beyond the shop a few points of fortune-telling Taoist priests, this is also because of the introduction of Nanshan Taoism to suppress Suizhou City, Suizhou City is still quite respectful of Taoist Buddhism, not only because of Nanshan, but more importantly, the stone tablet at the city gate, to be precise, the red sword on the stone tablet.

It is rumored that after the Battle of Suizhou City that year, Li Ting, who took Suizhou City, did not even leave a single soldier, and only after passing back the good news, he took Li Jiatie to the north to kill, and did not care about Suizhou City at all.

Before the army that took over the city defense of Da Yan had not yet arrived, Suizhou City became a lawless place, the hungry people in the city were in trouble, and it was a problem where to go for a while, where to care about what the king's law, burning, killing and looting were countless, for a time, Suizhou City was wailing everywhere, miserable.

After Dayan took over, with the arrival of the official army, Suizhou City gradually restored order, coupled with the departure of various policies of the imperial court, a large number of immigrants moved in from the south to the north, which made Suizhou City slowly recover.

But every late at night, the whole city will sound a burst of ghosts crying wolf howls, as if those dead souls have nowhere to rest, many people in the city say that they have seen those who have long been killed in battle and the old Qi soldiers are floating around, whether it is the strangers who moved in the city, or the residents who originally lived in the city, people are panicked for a while, every day before dark, they return home early, close the door, and dare not come out.

Even the city patrol soldiers were reluctant to come out at night to patrol the city to maintain law and order, and if it weren't for the army's bullets, many villagers who had just moved in would have to pack up their belongings and flee from this place.

Until one day, the people in the city who were about to close the door and hide in their homes suddenly saw a red light appear from the clouds, rushing straight into the north gate of Suizhou City, and the residents who didn't understand what was going on dared to come forward to watch, only to find that it was a sword with a red light inserted into the ground, and then they were horrified to see a large number of lonely souls and wild ghosts outside the city pouring into the ground, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The people who reacted immediately knelt down to the ground towards the sword, shouting loudly for the gods to appear and subdue the words of the demons, and after that, there were no more ghosts and ghosts in the city.

Later, the imperial court introduced the Nanshan Taoist method, built a stone tablet here, and hung the sword on the stone tablet to deter demons, but also to stabilize the people's hearts, but how to check can not find out the origin of this sword, the folk just rumored that this sword is the sword of the Wudang Mountain immortals, because they could not bear to kill the 100,000 Qi soldiers who died in the year and the old Qi people who died unexpectedly became lonely souls and wild ghosts with nowhere to go, so they used the immortal method to lead these dead souls into the underworld to die.

Therefore, Suizhou City is very respectful of Taoist priests, as for why it is said that it is Wudang Immortal and not Nanshan Immortal, this point is unknown, perhaps Wudang is closer to here, or it is the reason why there are more Taoists in Wudang Mountain who entered the world to practice.

At this time, the three of Li Bad were walking aimlessly and casually, until they came to a hexagram stall, looking curiously at this ordinary Taoist priest, and other Taoist priests on the hexagram stalls, but anyone who looked at pedestrians with a little family background passed by, they would mysteriously say a sentence "This incense master has an ominous face" or "The poor Taoist temple has a good face on the face of the incense master" and so on, so as to pull the pedestrian to count a hexagram.

On the other hand, this Taoist priest, Li Bad walked back and forth twice, but this Taoist priest didn't seem to see it, and he didn't open his mouth to solicit customers, which made Li Bad instantly interested, sat in front of the stall, pointed to a hexagram stall not far away, and asked: "Why is the Taoist chief not like them, is it that the Taoist chief doesn't know these doorways, or does the Taoist don't know hexagrams?"

The calm Taoist priest did not open his eyes, but only when he heard Li Bad's question, he spoke: "Poor Taoist divination, only wait for people to come, not ask people to come." ”

Li Bad glanced at the Taoist robe, it was not a unique Taoist robe in Nanshan, Wudang had never seen such a Taoist priest, and said with a smile: "The Taoist is like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for pilgrims to come to the door to tell the hexagram one day, right?"

The Taoist priest replied slowly: "Not really, isn't the son going to the door to ask for a hexagram at the moment?"

Li Bad was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a smile: "How do you know that the Daoist will definitely ask, if I don't ask, won't the Daoist be overjoyed?"

"If Childe hadn't asked, he wouldn't have sat here. The Taoist replied calmly.

Li Bad haha, and said with a smile: "Then ask the Taoist chief to calculate it for me, what is it, the Taoist chief is free to take a look at it, and also feel free to talk about it." ”

When the Taoist priest heard this, he still didn't open his eyes, but just stretched out his right hand and touched the table a few times, only to touch the hexagram paper on the table, rubbed it into the palm of his hand, and retracted his palm, facing Li Bad.

Only then did Li Bad, who came to understand, directly put his right hand on the table, and said apologetically: "I don't know that Chang Shuang's eyes are sick, so please ask the Taoist to touch my bones for me?"

The Taoist priest stretched out his hand, but just said: "Poor Dao only looks at the appearance, not the bones, the son waits, and the fate is not in a hurry." ”

Li Bad said in confusion when he heard this: "The Taoist chief can't see it, how can he see it?" As he spoke, he stretched out his left hand and shook it in front of the Taoist priest, but he didn't see the Taoist priest make any moves, and he was even more puzzled at the moment.

The Taoist priest stopped talking, Li Bad had to wait quietly for the Taoist priest, looking at Murong Lin beside him, Murong Lin also looked at the Taoist priest with a puzzled face, and he didn't understand in his heart, how did this Taoist priest look at him?

What can a blind man see when he looks at his face? Can he see accurately?

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